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Tennis: Rybakina wins her third title of the season in Stuttgart

The Kazakh Elena Rybakina, 4th player in the world, won the Stuttgart tournament, which launches the season for women on clay, by dominating the Ukrainian Marta Kostyuk (27th in the world) on Sunday afternoon, in two sets (6-2).

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Tennis: Rybakina wins her third title of the season in Stuttgart

The Kazakh Elena Rybakina, 4th player in the world, won the Stuttgart tournament, which launches the season for women on clay, by dominating the Ukrainian Marta Kostyuk (27th in the world) on Sunday afternoon, in two sets (6-2). , 6-2).

At 24, Rybakina won her eighth title on the circuit, the third this season after Brisbane (Australia) in January and Abu Dhabi in February. She also reached the final of the WTA 1000 in Doha in February and in Miami (Florida) at the end of March.

Winner of Wimbledon in 2022 and finalist of the Australian Open in 2023, she is placed as an outsider for Roland-Garros at the end of May and beginning of June, after having defeated the Polish Iga Swiatek, queen of Parisian clay, in the semi-finals. (coronements in 2020, 2022 and 2023) and world No.1.

On the courts of Porte d'Auteuil, Rybakina however did not do better than a quarter-final in 2021, exiting in 2022 and 2023 from the 3rd round, despite a coronation in 2023 at the WTA 1000 in Rome on clay.

After a bitter battle of almost three hours of play against Swiatek (6-3, 4-6, 6-3) on Saturday, the Kazakh more easily dominated Marta Kostyuk, winner of three top 10s in her journey to the final, in two sets and 1h10 of play.

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